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Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

...ód Éireann wants to see the role of rail in meeting the transport needs of our country expand. We are about to embark on the most significant expansion of our rail network in generations. The draft all-island strategic rail review, prepared by the Department of Transport in Ireland and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland, outlines the strategic pathway we will...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

...new rail track, bed, rails, sleepers and everything. That there is some older infrastructure is not an enormous benefit really. One would be starting over, as it were. There is just the land and the alignment.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

...Limerick–Foynes freight line, which we are currently engaged in, is effectively happening as a track renewal project. There is no planning permission process. Issues can arise where there are land takes, particularly if working around level crossings. In a best-case scenario, one would like to minimise the number of level crossings, but it is not always possible. To do it, a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

...to carry out the works, but we do not get the money as that involves a funding decision. As part of the permission, CPO powers are granted if needed. The preference is always to achieve any temporary or permanent land acquisition by negotiation. It differs depending on the project, but both options are available.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Regarding the northern section, from Claremorris upwards, there has been some talk to the effect that the alignment is not practical for rail and that land take, etc., would be required. From Mr. Kenny's experience, is that the case?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...would tick all the boxes with regard to complying with our climate ambitions. To do this would be a tremendous achievement. Mr. Kenny mentioned that there may be difficulties with regard to the land and the amount of space there is. Are there options or can options be looked at in order that we could develop both? How much more expensive would it be than to put down just a rail line?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

...Athenry to Claremorris, and the local authorities are keen to develop a greenway as well as the railway when it is being developed, there could not be a better time to do it and to engage with the landowners, with whom we would be engaging anyway as part of the project development, to have whatever strip of land bounding the alignment developed at the same time. It would be a different...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...will say we have gone in for a penny, so let us go in for a pound and finish this whole section of line? It is one section of a line. Also, with possession being nine tenths of the law and if the land was handed over to a greenway, there would be a lot of arguments against the cost, disruption and all the rest if we then had to rip up the greenway and put in the railway line. I believe...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

.... There is obviously a cost differential if that were the decision the local authority were to make for that project because the alignment there is a public one and a licence model. There are no land acquisition costs but we must work in the public policy context we are presented with. We recognise that context can change and I give the example of the south Wexford line, where local...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...Sligo, Leitrim, Northern Counties Railway, SLNCR, is progressing. If, at any time, a Government comes forward with funding or policy to build the railway, Mr. Kenny has confirmed that within six months the land can revert to Iarnród Éireann and the rail link can be built. I do not see competition here. I see an interim or perhaps more long-term - none of us knows –...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: So once the land is protected there is no benefit to having a greenway there beforehand or afterwards. We then must put in the infrastructure along the line to make it happen. Is that the case?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Mr. Kevin Kelly: My understanding from what Mr. Kenny outlined is that there would be a physical constraint regarding land availability. I assume additional land would be required and, therefore, there would seem to be at least the prospect of a division in the red lines between the greenway part and the railway part. There would have to be that division in the context of the legislative...